Colosseum

Colosseum. That's what Sport's Day 2006 in MJ is called. The turn-up rate was rather, I shall say.. "overwhelming" if you get the drift. Personally, I was rather reluctant to go either, except that if I didn't attend, I hadn't anywhere else to go either, so I might as well.

Phobos, my house, the red house, was situated outside the hall, whilst Atlas, Miranda and Triton had the sports gallery and Callisto was right below us outside the canteen. It was hot and humid and I seriously felt like dozing off. My eyelids felt like lead and I was exhausted especially after the morning's math test which promptly killed off the sane part of me.

Then the five "contingents" marched out onto the track and assembled on the field for the opening ceremony. It was sooo... Olympics. Yeah, even the music too. Then there was the taking of a sportsmenship pledge and Mr Lim fired off a... some sort of pistol and a whole ton of confetti were released (which were really quite beautiful but painstaking to clean up). And you know, the five colours of our houses are actually the five colours of the Olympics rings. Hahaha. No wonder they call it the PE houses and abolished the orientation houses. Sadly.

The atmosphere started to get really hyped up when the races began. Before long, I was leaning over the railing and screaming my lungs out for the Phobos runners. Even Doris and Darren were screaming too. Gone were the weariness.

After everything, Ms Lai invited everyone onto the field for the prize presentation. And then we did the Medley (is that how you spell it?) Cheer and sang the college anthem, really really loudly. All in all, it was pretty fun.

After cleaning up the place and moving all the chairs back into the hall, I left school for Tampines Library to study with CL, Aiysha and Hadi, which was quite eventful. But now, I'd have to leave cos my sis wants to play some Spongebob Square Pants game on the computer. *roll eyes*

Okay Marc, I'm updating, I'm updating... *mutters...*

Another ordinary day filled with normal, mundane stuff. Nothing much really. Ran 2.4km this morning. Clocked a really lousy timing of 15.37. I deproved by frickin' two minutes. This is bad. Really bad. I'm getting old, and lazy. I'm gonna go running this weekend. I won't rest till I get my Gold this year. Can't believe it ok. I've been getting Gold consistently for 4 years and suddenly it dropped to a Silver last year. Totally disappointing. I must get Gold this year.

Math test tomorrow morning, second period. Somehow I already have this feeling that I might not make it. Perhaps trigo is fine, if I can remember the addition and R formulas. And if I can manipulate those stupid equations well enough. Graphing techniques are well, oookay I guess. Transformation simply eludes my grasp. I can't get the bloody thing. Functions are oookay I guess, as long as they don't throw me something twistedly and absurdly complicated. Math and Chem are simply not my cup of tea. And if many university courses didn't require them, I wouldn't have put myself through this torture.

Next Monday is Labour Day. You have no idea how eagerly I await the weekends. Like I once mentioned, I have never appreciated the weekends more in my entire life. Nowadays, I feel like I'm living simply for the arrival of the weekends. I drag myself through the gruelling long school hours, for every minute passed is a minute closer to the weekends. Man, in JC, weekends are like a heavenly gift.

I went over to Bedok after school today to meet him. And there was a huge mis-communication. He thought I was at the bus stop near the Interchange and I thought he was gonna walk to the bus stop after the Interchange. So in the end, when he called me to ask where I was, we discovered that we were at two different bus stops. *tongs* Ah wells, at least I spent the time waiting to read my trigo formulas. Then after he sent me home, we were walking down to the bus stop and we were like singing songs. Haha, hilarious, but quite fun (though not when he goes out of tune *winces*) =P

Alright, and back to Math it is. And I'm comtemplating making a shared blog. =/

Monday Blues

RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I had almost completed the last question of my Chem prac before my booklet was taken away from me!! I could have gotten full marks! Damn it! AND!!! I have to go for make-up PE because the PE teacher claims we were very late. My watch is 3 minutes fast. And her watch is even faster than mine. So we were "late". Oh yes. So that's it. What precious little amount of sleep I have left has been cleanly robbed away. Usual reporting time on every Wednesday is 8.30am. The most precious 'late day'. This week, I have to report at 6.45am. For the frickin' make-up PE. RAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I hate Mondays! I hate Mondays! I hate Mondays! Can't stand it anymore! JC life is driving me up the wall! Let me erupt for just one post. Thank you.

Oh and please, never tell me that ending at 4 something in the afternoon is VERY LATE or I might very well hack off that round thing that sits atop your neck. The earliest I get to go home every single bloody day is 4.15pm!! And if God permits, there wouldn't be CO for the week, then I would be able to return home at 1.45pm on Wed and 12.05pm on Fri. PROVIDED there are no other friggin' sudden workshops. If not... CO bloody ends at 6.30pm on Wed and 5.30pm on Fri.

Tomorrow I've gotta bring food rations to school. Because after 12.05pm, we have SIX frickin' periods NON-STOP and one period is 50 minutes long. Just imagine, you study non-stop from 12.05 till 5.05pm without any breaks at all in between. I hate Tuesdays too!

The few things that are keeping my sanity intact are CL, my friends and stories. Yeah~ CL's like one of the nicest people in the entire world. =) It was raining heavily in the late afternoon. My chem prac ended at 5.05pm today and he was waiting for me at the bus stop outside my school. Surprisingly he hadn't an umbrella with him cos he usually carries one in his school bag. He was wearing the TJ polo tee and carrying his uniform in his hand. I was gonna run out into the rain when he draped his uniform over my head to shield me from the rain. Haha, so nice. But it was a most weird sight; MJ girl with TJ uniform draped over head. *raises eyebrow* So I took it off, carried it in my arms and ran to the bus stop where the driver of Bus 81 was so kind to wait for us. Yeah, he made me put on his 'uniform-umbrella' again when we alighted the bus and forbade me to take it off. Hahs. =) But that tongs walked in the rain and refused to use my file for shelter. Diao.

Sigh, Biology test on Wed and Math test on Friday. Bummer. Mug mug mug. Back to my Chemistry Gases tutorial now. Ciao.

Today I went back to TPJC for their Carnival. It then struck me really hard just how much I really missed everyone there. 06S07. Mr Ng and all my other subject tutors. And I began to feel slightly regretful of my decision during JAE.

I met CL and Marcus at the bus stop outside TPJC. Then I called Wenqi, as promised. And as she walked out of the gate to meet us, we ran towards each other. Man, I miss everyone so much. Then Marc arrived and we went inside. The next person I saw was my CT, Mr Ng. And we talked all the way to the canteen. He was asking me about life in MJ and all. Then I saw the rest of 06S07 outside the canteen. An overwhelming wave of nostalgia overcame me as I walked towards them and they caught sight of me. Everyone looked surprised to see me. Hahaha! Nazim and Fauzy then wanted to whack me up or something like that. Hahaha! Then we took many pictures! I hugged Xinyan, said 'hi' to everyone else! Goodness, I felt like really happy, and like I belonged there. I really miss 06S07.

On wednesday, during the GP test, I wrote my name at the top of the paper and then beside it, "06S07". Surpised, I hurriedly slashed that out and wrote "06S305". I was momentarily stunned. It just flowed out so naturally. It's not that I don't like my current school or CG or what, you guys are really great too and life would have been unbearable without you all. But it's just that I can't forget my life in TPJC, my ex-CG and all my teachers.

Enough of dwelling in the past or misery will start to set in. Yesterday, I finally bought what my CG calls the "infant-killer" AKA the A-level Campbell Biology book. And an apt name it is. That friggin' book seems to weigh a ton and is about 3 times the thickness of the O-level Biology textbook. And it costs $59. I declare myself broke man. Totally broke. I've been paying sooo much money for my notes, my textbooks, files, frickin' GC and even for an e-learning portal. *snorts derisively* Really.

*I will pick myself up and go on. I will grit my teeth, hold back my tears and trudge on, no matter how tough. Two years, I will survive. Thanks CL and Elga for being there for me. And to Mr Ng, thanks for the words of encouragement.*

A phrase from Xinyan's blog that struck me.

Fairy tales never existed..

Yeah, so stop living a dream. Wake up, girl.

I very much feel like I'd just been run over by a truck. Yeah, I got 'tortured' during PE this morning and now every single one of my protesting and aching muscles are making their presence felt. Very strongly indeed. I have no doubt I'm gonna have trouble walking tomorrow.

Oh, what I would give to have school end at even 3.30pm. Sigh. Piano lesson was fine today. I managed to catch a 10 minutes nap before piano though. I am so exhausted. The Sonata Facile is frickin' 10 pages long. -.- And I'm only at the third page. Hahs.

Chemistry practical was funny, in a weird, sick sort of manner. I kind of lost bits of my sanity. It was titration again. KMnO4 with acidified hydrogen peroxide this time. I was washing my burette with KMnO4 solution (potassium manganate VII) which is dark purple in colour. I inverted the burette over the sink and vigourously shook to get the last few drops out. What I didn't realise was that the glass tip at the other end was happily flinging purple KMnO4 droplets in every single direction possible.

The next thing I realised when I turned around was that my chemistry SPA booklet, opened to the page of our current experiment, was nicely redecorated with purple droplets of all shapes and sizes, which well, promptly turned brown. Along with that, there were purple dots on the bench top, a few beakers and the floor as well. Lovely, ain't it.

Have I mentioned how I detest transformations? Such mind-boggling stuff that simply eludes the understanding of my brain. But Mr Soh was reeeally reeeally nice to stay back and explain everything to Pris and I all over again. =)

I have an econs test tomorrow. Added to that, I have to do Chem tutorial 4, chem prac WS, econs essay outline, GP, bio flow chart and if there's anymore, I'd already forgotten. DEAD-TIRED. Off to do work now. Ciao.

Lonely Saturday..

Never in my entire life have I ever been more grateful for the arrival of the much anticipated weekends. I felt like I could finally breathe. School is nuts. Really. Every single day, lessons end so late, the earliest being on thursday, 4.15pm. Then I rush home to shower, eat and do my homework, which many times, drag late into the night. Oh, how I LOVE fridays and the weekends.

I was so wiped out by school, I slept at about 10pm last night. Totally miraculous. Oh yes, and I got out of bed at 10am this morning too. Haha. But still, it'll never make up for the lack of sleep I had during the whole week.

I spent about half my day playing the piano and violin today. Hanon is still so fun. Haha. How on earth do you trill an entire bar with your right hand and maintain an entire bar of 1/16 notes with your left hand at the same time? Wth. I practiced Mozart's Sonata Facile, 1st movement until my hands hurt. Then I switched over to violin.

Ah, I miss playing my violin! Lol, I was playing Jay Chou's Feng, You Raise Me Up and Canon in D. And I ran through the G Major scale too. Sighs, I need to practice more. I'm losing my touch. >.<

I finished my PI draft! How absolutely glorious. ^^

There was CO practice today and I was so embarrassed when I got stuck at the insanely fast running notes for "Fen Yong Qian Jing" today. Can you imagine playing a few bars of 1/16 notes at Allegro? Ugh. We played "Feng Nian Ji" today too and yes, I played the gaohu solo. First time in my entire life I played a solo sia. Have you any idea how freaky it was? Two bars before the solo, the entire orchestra decrescendo-ed and I began to tremble. I was that freaked. But thankfully, the solo turned out to be okay, despite my trembling hand which made my bow shake.

CL picked me up after CO today. He waited outside school for me. Hee~ :)

Tomorrow is going to be an insanely heavily packed day. I have like all my H2 subject tutorials AND H1 lecture AND PE. Which means like I have Bio, Chem and Math tutorials tomorrow, Econs lecture and GP, PW and Chinese tutorials. Oh my Goodness, I can't believe it, I have lessons for every single one of my subjects tomorrow. Including PE. Ugh. And that bombshell just landed on me.

Oh! And Happy 17th Birthday Dan! God bless!

I am totally wiped out by PI and Chem tutorial. I am going to bed now. Good night! Bonne nuit and au revoir!

I can't believe it! I got 'black-listed' for not doing a Chem tutorial I DIDN'T KNOW how to do because I missed the lecture on the day I was sick. They were like "Oh, didn't do. What's your name?" Then they recorded down my name. Wth. It's not like I DON'T WANT to do, but I DON'T KNOW HOW to do. And it's not as if I didn't attempt the tutorial at all. Just that I got stuck at qn 1. Wth. Argh.

And I broke a coverslip during Biology practical today. Talk about bad luck. Which had me thinking, that why do all bad things happen in the same span of time? And just last night, I had a little disagreement with CL and it got really, seriously upsetting. But I'm really glad that disagreement is more or less fixed now. It affected me the entire last night and today la. And you know, when all bad things happen one after another, it accumulates until you can take no longer and KA-BOOM. I fought real hard to keep the tears from falling in school today. School is one of the most inappropriate place to have a good cry.

Piano lesson was okay today, but I sooo cannot sight-read that Mozart piece. Hanon rocks! Or at least, that particular Hanon exercise rocks (I can't remember the number)! I had lots of fun playing it, zipping up and down the keys. And yeah, I can play "Feng", which I figured out on the piano last night in about 5 minutes. What an achievement. Haha, okay, that was so... ego. Something needs a little deflating. Namely, perhaps, my head.

I'm like rushing my GP essay outline now. The choice of topic isn't exactly my cup of tea, but we had no say in that matter. "Can small countries have a significant voice in world affairs?" The first thing that zipped into my mind was political issues. And since I don't have the good habit of reading the newspapers, I had to like do a bit of research based on the scratchy bits of information I possess. Of course, there're much more issues like religions, development of technologies, nuclear power and blah blah blah. Why on earth am I talking about my GP essay here? Nevermind, that was a rhetoric question.

I'd better return to my homework before I launch into a seemingly endless tirade about how insane JC life can be.

And lastly... I miss you.

I can't even begin to describe just how much I hurt everywhere. Physically and emotionally. Oh, how I abhor PE. I shan't even delve into the emotional aspects of my pain.

"Hey! There's a bug on your hair!"

Happy April Fool's Day!! I have yet to play any tricks on anyone. That is so unbelievable. Can you believe I actually forgot today was April Fool's Day until Talz and Em reminded me last night? Here's your proof people, that I am totally stressed out in MJ.

CL tricked me last night, when the clock struck 12. At that time, we were all on our way home from the musical performance. He msged me and told me that he accidentally stepped into a drain and broke his ankle. I totally freaked out. After a few msgs where I went into a frenzy about him going to the doctor and all, he finally said "What date is today?". That guy ought to be shot.

To my utmost horror, I discovered that I am the only gaohu-ist in the entire MJCO. Now, it wouldn't be that bad if the gaohu weren't as shrill as a piccolo. That added to the fact that I am seated right smack in front of the conductor. Every single piece now seems like a solo to me. But what's even worse is that they're playing "Feng Nian Ji" for the concert in mid-year, which has a gaohu solo in it.

After CO yesterday, I went down to Kallang Theatre with CL to pass my sister the cake's she'd left behind in the refrigerator. It was the night of Temasek's bi-annual musical performance. "Brothers", it was entitled this year. On a moment of impulse, we bought tickets on the spot and went to watch it. It was very nostalgic and I really miss TMS a lot. Saw many of my juniors, my teachers and of course my ex-classmates. Em and I screamed and jumped up and down at the foyer when we saw each other. Haha, a moment of overwhelming emotions and insanity.

This is funny. *raises eyebrow*

You Are 70% Boyish and 30% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch. Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes. You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them. You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

You are Milk Chocolate

A total dreamer, you spend most of your time with your head in the clouds. You often think of the future, and you are always working toward your ideal life. Also nostelgic, you rarely forget a meaningful moment... even those from long ago.

What Kind of Chocolate Are You?